There’s a headline that could be used for so many posts–on public infrastructure, ease of obtaining absentee ballots, reform of property tax, quality of the state legislators, quality of secondary education, etc., etc., etc.
In August the New York Times ran a map of where the action was in government reform. The article looked at current “vote reform efforts,” a relevant topic with our presidential election less than a month away.
The article listed four types of reform. The list included lawsuits against gerrymandering on racial or partisan grounds, gerrymander reform efforts, a push to amend the Constitution to overturn the Citizens’ United ruling, and ballot initiatives on clean money. South Dakota was listed for three of the four.
Pennsylvania was not listed for any of the reform efforts. On the other hand, neither were Mississippi, New Jersey, South Carolina, or West Virginia, if that makes you feel any better.
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